A while back I briefly discussed how to set up High-Availability Data Replication (HDR) on a single Windows machine for testing purposes. One of my compadres has just written a much more in-depth guide to doing this which was published today - see: Setting up...

Following Environment: HDR Primary (Node 1) HDR Secondary (Node 2) CMSM with DRAUTO=3 and FOC on app server(s) (also without CMSM and DRAUTO=1 or DRAUTO=2) What happens, if on Node 1 Network cable is unplugged or ethernet interface goes down or some other...

Setting up High-Availability Data Replication (HDR) is well documented , but users of IDS on Windows have to jump through one extra hoop compared to UNIX users. When IDS is installed and initialized on Windows it puts the dbspaces in a path which contains the...

In IDS Cheetah release, you can encrypt communication between an HDR pair, to secure the transmission of data over unsecured networks, including the internet. After you enable encryption, the HDR primary encrypts the data before sending it to the HDR Secondary...

Happy 2010 (I need to get used to writing that so my checks don't bounce). The new decade brings new resolutions, including of course a forlorn hope of updating the blog with greater frequency. HDR is a powerful Informix availability solution but it is...

This got me thinking about what my hottest feature in IDS 11.5 is. I'd probably pick something obscure like XSLT transform support or oninit -w on Windows. I think this is referring to redirected-writes, which is indeed a not bad 11.5 feature.. Informix Chat...

With Informix 11.70.FC5, you can design, deploy and use Informix Warehouse Acceleraor (IWA) from any of the Informix high availability server types -- Primary, HDR Secondary, SDS, RSS. It's simple to configure and use. The slide show below quickly gets you up...

MACH11 M ulti-node A ctive C luster for H igh Availability(MACH11) is a code name for the new feature called ContinuousAvailability introduced in Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) 11. This new feature significantly expands the highavailability options...